The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-07-13
YANKEE AND REBEL.
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY HAVE A
GLORIOUS FOURTH at
GETTYSBURG.
"Dixie" aud "YaniSee Doodle" Call Forth
the Confederate Yell and the
Ifnf.n Chaar

the confederate yell ana the
Union Cheer.
GETTYSBURG, PA, July AUST as
the clock in the tower of the county
courthouse last night sounded the first
stroke of IL, the midnight stiffness was
broken by the strains from bugle of
"Way Down Upon the Suwanee River"
Scarcely had its notes died away when
the members of the Philadelphia brig
ade and Pickett's division began the cele-
bration of the glorious Fourth with the
booming of cannon on East Cemetery
Hill and the roar Of fire crackers in the
town. Pandemonium rcigncd for an
hour and a half. No such noise has dis
turbed this little village since the three
memorable days of '63. This morning
at Z o'clock the members of Pickett's di-
vision proceeded to the courthouse, and
were called to order by Col. Aylett. Some
one proposed that every member of the
division present should give twenty-five
cents toward paying the expenses which
Mrs. Pickett incurred on this visit. The
proposition was accepted with cheers,
and the way the money ratified on the
secretary's desk was sufficient proof of
the esteem in which Mrs. Pickett is held
by the division.
Resolutions were then adopted thank
ing the Philadelphia brigade for the hos
pitablc manner in which they had treat
ed them, the town authorities for the
way they received them, their own Off
cials for the trouble and time they had
given in bringing about this reunion and
all soldiers for their fraternal greeting.
The meeting then adjourned, and outside
the building they Joined in procession
with the Philadelphia brigade. With
each Pickett man linked arms with
Philadelphia, the line proceeded to the
Eagle Hotel, where the party took car
riages and started over the battle field.
In the first carriage were Mrs. General
Pickett and her son George; Mrs. Chas.
Banes, wife Of the commander of the
Philadelphia brigade and Col. Batchel-
der. Fully one hundred carriages were
in the line, which wendell its way through
the dust of the Emittsburg road to the
Spangler lane. Into this they turned
and proceeded past the farmhouse to the
rising ground beyond. Here all alightcd.
and then the word went round that Mrs.
Pickett was going to hold reception on
the very ground over which her husbands
command had charged, and within q few
yards of the woods under whose cover he,
twenty years before, had formed HE d.
vision. The Pickett men were first form
cd in line, and one by one advanced and
were introduced to the WIFI tnttr rcgi.
comnIantrr by She had word for all,
md all had a word for her The Phila-
lclphia brigade was next presented. Her
,on. George Pickett, stood at her side,
and when she dropped a hand it was Mt
once grabbed by him.
The people then moved to the highest
ground and Col. Batchelder formed the
survivors, of Kemper's, Barnetts and
brigades of Pickett's division
in the order they had been when the
charge began, and asked the commander
of each regiment to step forward ana
noint ont the position of his command.
When this was done, the party once more
resumed their ride, and took the follow
ing route: Out the Emmittsburge road,
along Scklcs' line ~ the Peach Orchard,
thence across the bloody wheat-heid u
the "Dcvirs Den" Through the wal,
lev of DEATH around the base of Round
TOP. thence by the battlefield avenue
along the Union line post, the ombrclia
corpse of trees where Hancock fell wound
cd ON by "Bloody Angle" the "high
water mark of the Rebellion" past
Mcud's quarters, through the. beautiful
National Cemetry, and entered town by
the Baltimore pike, over which the
IInion troops retreatcd after the bloody
struggle of the first day.
Nrs. Pickett was the center OF attrac.
ton on the field. She had gathered
some daisies and clover heads a hummer
of the brigade asked her for Il few, she
rave them with smile, and one by one
thew were given away to he treasured "a
mementoes. Her autograph was also
caocrly sought and she refused no one:
George Pickett showed the Associated
Press correspondent the watch ms iather
carried during the charge. 1t Is medi,
um.sized gold one, with the stars ana
stripes and stars aud bars crossed oii!tne
lid on the inside are the names oi the
battles in which he participated In the
Meyican war. To say that Picketts men
are pleased would be putting IL lightly
they are delighted with everything'and
everybody. In the words Of a Confeder
ate soldier: ave are pleased all "
nieccs, but Cowan, this timrs has captured
:. .,s body and soul. " 1t.
while the band was playing a medic,
az Confederate and Union war songs -
m. veterans were starring on their sld'
over the field, IL struck up "fanse'
: noodle.n Instantly q Rebel yell and
}. Union cheer showed that the song !,
: their fathers above all other had touches
a sympathetic chord In tie breasts =
hath. This evening q religlous ss.sle
Was held. In the absence VI tue c"ai